The event at the Ben Franklin TechVentures incubator attracted
11 potential startup companies, pitching their ideas to crowds and then forming
teams to work on projects before presenting final ideas to a panel of experts.

Winners were:

First prize: Skaffl, with its education-based mobile app RUNG, which allows teachers to distribute, collect, grade and return assignments to students using devices like iPads.

Second prize: Das Bier Macher, a compact automated system used to homebrew craft beer.

Third prize: We Got Your Site, a web application that allows small businesses to build and maintain a website using just their Facebook feed.

Honorable mention: Bar-O-Metrics, intelligent coasters that can be used in bars to measure and record how much bartenders pour and/or spill from their liquor bottles.

Winners were awarded more than $20,000 in services to help them launch their companies. These included accounting and legal services, entrepreneurial education, website hosting and co-working space.

StartupWeekend is a global, grass-roots
movement designed to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. About 400 similar events take place nationwide. For more information, visit lehighvalley.startupweekend.org